As to your comment about her feeling as though she has done nothing wrong, absolutely accurate.
She lives by Hollywood's moral standards and such standards, to the extent they actually exist, as illusive as Bigfoot.
We can rest assured that the mood around her dinner table at home is not one of contrition but one of anger and righteous indignation.
I figure the team is discussing a range of strategies, costs, and odds. No doubt refusing to take a deal is a deliberate choice, but it could be HER. Her lawyers are obliged to follow her direction or resign.
There is plenty of "wrong" conduct that isn't criminal, so she has room to massage her public message. She can go from the Jussie system of dindu nuthin wrong, to "it was wrong, but it's not right to make me a criminal for it," with plenty of stops in between.
Interesting that the dishonest admissions system, operated by the schools, is so far escaping attention.